Supreme Court of India
Narayan Yadav v. State of Chhattisgarh
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What the Court ordered
We hold that the disclosure statement made by the appellant-accused (Exts.
Judgment, page 23
From the headnote
Issue for Consideration Whether the High Court erred in passing the impugned judgment relying on the confessional FIR filed by the appellant-accused himself and the medical evidence to uphold his conviction, however, altering it from s.302, IPC to s.304 Part I. Headnotes† Evidence Act, 1872 – s.25 – Penal Code, 1860 – ss.302, 304 Part I – Confessional FIR, not admissible in evidence – Appellant-accused himself lodged FIR confessing the murder of the deceased in a drunken quarrel after the deceased allegedly made an obscene remark about the appellant’s girlfriend – Convicted u/s.302, IPC –
Authorities it was built on
- 1976 State of Andhra Pradesh v. Rayavarapu Punnayya & Another
- 1960 State of U.P. v. Deoman Upadhyaya
- 1965 Aghnoo Nagesia v. State of Bihar
- 2009 Murli and Anr. v. State of Rajasthan
- 2012 Budhi Singh v. State of H.P.
- 1993 Kikar Singh v. State of Rajasthan
- 2017 Surain Singh v. The State of Punjab
- 1957 Nisar Ali v. The State of Uttar Pradesh
- 1964 Faddi v. The State of Madhya Pradesh
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